Mini cottage pies (new recipe!)
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Ingredients
  • 3-4 egg-sized potatoes
  • 3 tablespoons minced beef
  • 1 tablespoon heap minced yellow onion
  • 1 tablespoon heap minced carrot
  • 1 tablespoon heap frozen green peas
  • olive oil
  • 1 bay leaf
  • about ¼ Knorr beef stock cube (dissolve in about 100ml hot water)
  • 1 tablespoon tomato-based pasta sauce
  • 1 tablespoon plain flour
For adding to mashed potato:
  • unsalted butter
  • milk
  • salt to taste
  • unsalted all-purpose herbs
  • ground black pepper
  • garlic bread powder
Marinate beef with:
  • worcestershire sauce
  • oyster sauce
  • black pepper
  • garlic powder
  • sugar (optional)
Instructions
  1. Marinate minced beef. Set aside.
  2. Peel potatoes and cube them. Set them to boil. Boil them till they are soft.
  3. Heat saucepan and add oil.
  4. Brown the beef. Make sure there are no large clumps. Remove from pan and set aside.
  5. Add oil and fry the minced onion, peas and carrot till onion is soft.
  6. Add flour and pasta sauce then return the beef to the saucepan.
  7. Add the beef stock and simmer till the stock becomes a gravy. Remove the bay leaf when done.
  8. Meanwhile, mash the potatoes with the ingredients stated above.
  9. Fill the silicon mini muffin cups with the beef filling to about the half-waymark.
  10. Add the mashed potato on top and shape them like little muffins.
  11. Preheat oven to 220degC.
  12. Bake mini pies for 20-25min at 220degC. (20min will do for mine) - or till the potato turns golden brown.
Recipe by at http://simplymommie.com/2012/08/mini-cottage-pies-new-recipe.html